Combined with the Internet and personal computing, digital media has caused disruption in publishing, journalism, entertainment, education, commerce and politics. Digital media has also posed new challenges to copyright and intellectual property laws, fostering an open content movement in which content creators voluntarily give up some or all of their legal rights to their work. The ubiquity of digital media and its effects on society suggest that we are at the start of a new era in industrial history, called the Information Age, perhaps leading to a paperless society in which all media are produced and consumed on computers. However, challenges to a digital transition remain, including outdated copyright laws, censorship, the digital divide, and the specter of a digital dark age, in which older media becomes inaccessible to new or upgraded information systems. Digital media has a significant, wide-ranging and complex impact on society and culture.

Combined with the Internet and personal computing, digital media has caused disruption in publishing, journalism, entertainment, education, commerce and politics. Digital media has also posed new challenges to copyright and intellectual property laws, fostering an open content movement in which content creators voluntarily give up some or all of their legal rights to their work. The ubiquity of digital media and its effects on society suggest that we are at the start of a new era in industrial history, called the Information Age, perhaps leading to a paperless society in which all media are produced and consumed on computers. However, challenges to a digital transition remain, including outdated copyright laws, censorship, the digital divide, and the specter of a digital dark age, in which older media becomes inaccessible to new or upgraded information systems. Digital media has a significant, wide-ranging and complex impact on society and culture.

Following stories by the Observer ’s Carole Cadwalladr and others, Facebook released the digital ads sent out by Brexit campaigners during the EU referendum campaign to a “fake news” inquiry by the digital, culture, media and sport select committee ... In September, the EU parliament ......

Since February 2017I’ve been asking the commission to do more to investigate how Banks’s money was spent during the EU referendum and, more recently, why he has refused to disclose the source of his money to the commission and the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee....

Since February 2017I’ve been asking the commission to do more to investigate how Banks’s money was spent during the EU referendum and, more recently, why he has refused to disclose the source of his money to the commission and the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee....

Banks also rejects the commission’s suspicion that he is not the “true source” of £8m funding supplied to Leave.EU... In a statement, Damian Collins, the chair of parliament’s digital, culture, media and sport committee, said it was unclear from where Banks had got the cash....

... with Germany in the coming weeks on an EUdigital tax targeting US technology giants ... Scholz has come out in favor of a global minimum fiscal regime for multinational corporations, but media reports suggested that he was not yet convinced by the digital tax proposal from the EU....

Travel websites, digitalmedia companies and trade associations like the European Publishers Council and European Game Developers Foundation also signed the letter, which accused the tech giants of having "disproportionate bargaining power" and using their "privileged position to become gatekeepers to the digital economy."....

The expected loss of EU funding and uncertainty over the status of EU nationals after March 2019 meant UK museums were already losing scientists, researchers and curators, and there was a shortage of archaeologists, they said ... A spokesman for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said....

0 Comments EU copyright reform for the digital age edges closer ... https.//www.independent.ie/business/media/eu-copyright-reform-for-the-digital-age-edges-closer-37319983.html ... digital services to spy on users ... Getting copyright legislation right for the digital age is a tough ask....

The European Union (EU) wants to shake up the way Internet companies handle media, e-books, digital music, news articles and other content posted online by better protecting the rights of the authors and creators.EU lawmakers voted to back a report... ....